5 Content Marketing Goals to Implement into Your Business Growth Strategies Now

| StreetShares Blog

In an overcrowded market brimming with increasing competition, valuable and relevant content is what sets businesses apart in the online world. Content marketing is the creation and distribution of content to attract and engage your target audience.

As per Content Marketing Institute reports, compared to last year (68 percent), there was an 18 percent increase among respondents who are focused on using content marketing to build audiences (80 percent), proving that businesses are gradually moving away from traditional marketing and adopting a robust content marketing strategy instead.

Why is Content Marketing Important?

Through content marketing, you can educate your consumers about topics important to them and eventually your business’ offerings. It gives your brand a voice to engage with your target audience and establish a strong, trustworthy relationship with them.

By providing useful, educational, clever or entertaining content, you are giving your customers another reason to appreciate your brand and share it with their friends, co-workers, and families, thereby building brand loyalty.

Goal 1: Create Brand Awareness

Brand awareness reflects how familiar your consumers are with your brand and content marketing is the finest tactic to achieve this. A report from Oracle and Aberdeen Group showed that 74 percent of CMOs list increasing brand awareness as a top priority.

Focus on creating shareable and interesting content to spread brand awareness and break through the clutter. Your content should be able to grasp the attention of people and leave a lasting impression in their minds. This can be in the form of branded content such as SlideShare decks, infographics, e-books, webinars or even fun videos.

Common KPIs –

Social media shares and views

Conduct surveys after certain key campaigns to assess the response

Review the volume of branded searches for your company through tools such as Google Trends or AdWords Keyword Planner

Goal 2: Drive Traffic to Website and Blog

Traffic generation is a more specific goal as compared to brand awareness. The keyword here is ‘link.' All the content you churn out needs to be linked to your website or blog. It’s not about writing a blog post just for the sake of it, it’s about ensuring you present your audience with remarkable content – the ones that have a strong call to action and direct them to your website or blog.

Common KPIs –

Total number of website/blog visits per month

Percentage of return visitors

Engaged time on site

Conversion rates for call-to-action content

Goal 3: Generate Leads

Now that you have traffic to your website, the next step is to materialize it and generate leads. It is essential to present them with compelling content that makes them leave their email addresses with you. How you ask? Team up the content you create with a lead generation form.

From ebooks, white papers, free trials, courses, demos, and email subscriptions – anything that gives your potential audience access to your content and leaves them intrigued is a good starting point for generating leads.

Goal 4: Nurture Leads

Your business will only grow if you are able to successfully convert your leads to sales. The most critical aspect of the marketing funnel, lead nurturing, is all about creating value and educating your audience about your brand and services. Make sure your content is not a hard sell and is instead filled with valuable information.

The kind of content that works here are case studies, product demonstration videos, infographics, educational email campaigns and other value-driven content that poses a solution to your leads’ concerns.

Common KPIs –

Lead-to-customer conversion rate for each campaign or content delivered

Email open rates and click-through rates

Goal 5: Delight Customers

Your work does not end with converting leads. For long-term benefits, it is essential to strike an established, trustworthy bond with your customers. At this stage, you need to delight them with valuable content and offers to keep them coming back for more.

Make use of educational blog posts, exclusive content for customers, free webinars, tutorials and email campaigns through which you can offer them exclusive offers and promotions.

Common KPIs –

Retention rate

Percentage of repeat buyers/customers

Promotion and referrals from customers

Now that the goals are laid out for you, it’s time to see what you would like to achieve for your business. Always remember to set KPIs for each of the goals to assess what is working and what’s not.

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